Wisconsin
High pressure system will bring cooler than normal temperatures to Wisconsin this week
The beginning of the week will bring almost unseasonably cool weather to Wisconsin, with high temperatures hovering in the mid-70s.
That’s because of a high pressure system that’s moving into the area, explained National Weather Service meteorologist Mark Gehring.
“It’s coolest on Tuesday, and then it starts to move away just a little bit. The temperatures, the air mass starts to modify and warm up more,” Gehring said.
This type of high pressure system can happen any time in summer. Temperatures this week will be about seven or eight degrees below typical highs for mid-August, which are usually in the 80s.
But even that isn’t very unusual, and those temperatures are “within the range of typical variability for summer,” Gehring said.
The current forecast for Milwaukee shows a 76 degree high on Monday and 73 on Tuesday. It’s “gradually going to get warmer” the rest of the week, Gehring said, with a high around 76 on Wednesday, 78 on Thursday and 82 on Friday.
Those cool temperatures will affect all of Wisconsin and the Great Lakes region, not just Milwaukee. The front could make it all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico, Gehring said.
Another highlight of the forecast this week? No rain, unlike the heavy storms that Milwaukee saw last week.
“We’re going to have a dry week, which I think is welcome,” Gehring said. “It’s going to be a drier week and just nice, pleasant weather.”
Still, a beach hazards statement is in effect from Sunday morning until 10 p.m. Monday night, due to strong north winds.
High waves up to three to five feet and rip currents are possible. People should stay out of the water and avoid piers, jetties and breakwalls, the NWS says, and avoid fishing close to shore.
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Wisconsin
Republican support dwindles in Wisconsin’s historic GOP strongholds – Washington Examiner
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Wisconsin’s WOW counties, the suburban counties of Waukesha, Ozaukee, and Washington outside of Milwaukee, have been the Republican epicenters of the state for decades. Trends, however, suggest they may be moving more to the left than they historically have been.
Waukesha is the state’s third most populous with nearly 400,000 residents, behind the two most populous counties Milwaukee and Dane, which are the Democratic strongholds of the state. With Wisconsin’s national political relevance being so grand in recent elections, Waukesha’s status as a Republican stronghold is important if Republicans want to keep winning statewide elections in Wisconsin.
“It’s kind of a political joke amongst pundits that it all comes down to Waukesha County, Wisconsin. There is some truth to that —the turnout is really important for Republicans there. It’s really a place that they need,” Mike Wagner, a professor who focuses on political communication and public opinion at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, told the Washington Examiner.
Historically, the WOW counties have been the most Republican areas of the state. During the 2008 presidential race, former President Barack Obama carried the state of Wisconsin by 14 points, but performed poorly in these counties. Obama won 59 of Wisconsin’s 72 counties, but in Waukesha, Ozaukee, and Washington counties, he received less than 40% of the vote, which were some of the lowest numbers of all the counties he lost.
In 2012, presidential candidate Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) received 64.63% of the support in Ozaukee country. The county had previously been considered to be the most Republican of the three and even the state, but now looks to be the least of the WOW counties.
“Ozaukee County was the most Republican county in all of Wisconsin in the 1990s but that same time the ‘O’ in WOW has gone from being the most Republican county to, like the 40 or 44th,” Wagner said. “It’s really decreased in its power.”
“When Scott Walker was running for governor in 2014, Ozaukee County gave Republicans a more than 40 point margin. While the Republican candidate for governor won Ozaukee County in 2022, it was by 10 or 11 points,” Wagner said.
From 1996 through 2020, no Democratic candidate won even a single municipality, town, or city in these three counties. President Joe Biden narrowly flipped the city of Cederburg in Ozaukee County in 2020, highlighting somewhat of a shift in this region.
“It used to be that the WOW counties really were lockstep together, and now the O in WOW is disappearing. Washington and Waukesha counties are still strongly Republican, Ozaukee County has been shifting more to the Democrats,” Wagner said. “WOW is losing its wow factor in a way.”
Washington County is becoming the most Republican of the three counties. Trump won Washington County by almost 40 points in 2020, but only won Ozaukee County by 12, far down from Romney’s nearly 30-point win there in 2012.
As former President Donald Trump leans into right-wing populism, his message is becoming more popular in rural areas of the state than it is with the the more traditional areas the Republican Party has been strong in. Former speaker Paul Ryan’s district used to encompass parts of Waukesha County and he was vastly popular with these counties.
Now, as Ryan and other conservatives like Romney step away from the party, these counties seemingly are, too.
“When Trump first ran for president in 2016 in the Wisconsin primary, Ted Cruz won the Wisconsin primary, not Trump,” Wagner said. “After it was pretty clear Trump was going to be the nominee, and so lots of Republicans just were not wild about him, but once he became the party’s nominee, they got blind and voted for him.”
“But after seeing him as president, some of those voters could not pull the lever for him again and voted for Biden,” Wagner continued.
Reproductive rights and abortion has also been a driving factor for suburban women in recent elections, not just in the Milwaukee suburbs, but nationwide. Wagner credited some of the political shift to abortion.
“It’s been a huge issue, and it’s really been highlighted in voting in the state Supreme Court,” Wagner said. He pointed to the fact that Wisconsin voters actually vote for Wisconsin Supreme Court justices instead of justices being appointed.
In the last two Supreme Court races in the state, campaigns have focused on abortion because after the fall of Roe v. Wade in 2022, abortion was briefly outlawed in Wisconsin entirely.
In the state’s 2023 supreme court race, liberal Justice Janet Protasiewicz won and her campaign invested heavily not only in Dane and Milwaukee counties, but also the WOW counties. Once again, Ozaukee county shifted slightly as her opponent, conservative Daniel Kelly, won the county by just five percentage points, as compared to Mitt Romney‘s 30-point win in 2012.
Voting habits in the 2024 primaries in the WOW counties also indicate a leftward shift. This month, Wisconsin voters rejected two GOP-backed ballot questions aimed at decreasing the spending power of the governor. Democrats waged a campaign urging Wisconsinites to vote “no,” which ultimately paid off as they did not pass.
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In the WOW counties, the “yes” vote for these questions got only 50% of the vote in Ozaukee County and 57% of the vote in Waukesha County. Ten years earlier, Walker was reelected with more than 70% of the vote in Waukesha and Ozaukee counties in 2014.
It wasn’t a primary fluke either as the primary also had record turnout, with 26% of those voting aged or higher in the state voting, the highest in 60 years for a presidential year partisan primary.
Wisconsin
Paddlers from northeast Wisconsin hit the Fox River for the ‘Heart-of-the-Valley Locks Paddle”
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FOX RIVER, Wis. (WBAY) – Water enthusiasts from across the state took to the Fox River on Saturday for the “Heart-of-the-Valley Locks Paddle”.
The event was forced to change course after high water levels from recent storms. Paddlers started their trek at Sunset Park in Kimberly and ended in Combined Locks, a shorter route than initially planned.
That didn’t stop them from coming out and enjoying the ride, however.
“One of the gentlemen on the tour said it’s historic because of the age of the locks and just getting to watch them function,” said Ian Barnes of Appleton. “It’s just interesting to see the water levels change and actually be that close to the water and on the water actually only being a couple inches above it as we drop ten to twelve feet each lock.”
There were 68 paddlers in total, all excited for the chance to see the Fox Cities from a different point of view.
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Can the Badgers win at least eight games in 2024?
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The Wisconsin Badgers are entering the 2024 season with different expectations than they had last year after an up-and-down 2023 during Luke Fickell’s first year as head coach.
Still, they look like a better team from a year ago, as the Badgers hit the transfer portal to address key needs. But, that’s matched with a tougher schedule this year, as Wisconsin enters the new-look Big Ten.
So, how will they fare this season?
On Friday, Stewart Mandel of The Athletic issued his win-loss predictions for all Big Ten teams. Ohio State was predicted to go undefeated, while Michigan State and UCLA will finish tied for last at 4-8.
The Wisconsin Badgers, facing one of the strongest schedules in the nation this season, are predicted to go 8-4 along with Rutgers and Nebraska.
Mandel sees the Badgers finishing with an eight-win season for three reasons.
1. The Badgers should have solved their growing pains under Year 1 of the Luke Fickell regime.
2. Tyler Van Dyke will be a quality transfer quarterback.
3. Wisconsin’s demanding schedule features Alabama, Penn State, and Oregon at home and road trips to USC and Iowa.
While Wisconsin opens the season against Western Michigan and South Dakota, first-year Alabama head coach Kalen DeBoer and returning starting quarterback Jalen Milroe enter Camp Randall Stadium for an early September test. The Crimson Tide game will gauge how close or far Wisconsin is to becoming a college football playoff team.
Then, the schedule gets interesting.
According to ESPN FPI, the Badgers are underdogs against six of the next eight opponents, including Rutgers and Nebraska, before finishing the season against Minnesota.
Wisconsin is favored to win its eighteenth straight game against the Purdue Boilermakers and take revenge against Northwestern after the Wildcats’ 24-10 beatdown of Wisconsin back on November 11th.
Stewart Mandel’s 8-4 prediction for the Badgers is perhaps the safe bet if one looks at the schedule.
If Wisconsin wants to improve from a pedestrian 7-6 record last year, it must avoid the upset bug. So, look for Tyler Van Dyke and a resurgent offensive line under AJ Blazek to lead the Badgers in the second year under head coach Luke Fickell.
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